Huntsville gazette., 1887-04-30
JUNE p is oficiallv set anart as the dax

JUNE " is of1cially set apart as the day
for observing the royal jubilee in Canada.
The stove manufacturers Of Roches ter,
N. Y, shut down on the 25th, this action
being caused by decision of the National
Stove Manufacturers Association to send
patterns there from shops where strikes
are in progress.
RECORDER TRoTTER has left Washington
for Boston, hoping to gain health and
strength by the change.
Hoy. SAMUEL H. BLAKE, president of
the Ne rchants, Naffonaf Bank Of Bangor.
Me-, and leading lawyer, died at the
Tremont House. Boston, on the 25th, OF
pneumonia. He was on his way home
ON Florida, where he had been the past
six months. -3
FRANK WELLS, an ex-brakeman on the
fan-Han die railroad, was arrested at
Steubenville, o., on the 25th. His house
was searched and a large quantity OF
clothing, shoes, cigars, hatchets, ETC.,
were found, said to have been stolen from
the railroad
THE Baltimore & Ohio Express Com.
pany has signed contract with the Rich
mond q Allegheny railroad, by which the
former gains the exclusive right to trans
act the express business over the 25C
THE Yale freshmen, who have received
challenge from the University of Penn
sylvania freshmen for two-mile straight.
away eight-ored race at New London,
have voted to accept the challenge The
race will probably be rowed the same day
as that of the Yale-Harvard University
i JAMES II. MARR, who had been in the
Post-Ofice Department at Washington
since 1881 died on the 9th
SPEAKER SAYRE denies that there is any
prospect of an extra session Of the Indiana
Legislature or that q break of the politi-
cal deadlock is probable.
COLONEL DoRsHEIMER, of the New York
Std'', says that he persuaded President
Cleveland out of the notion of making a
public declaration that he would not run
again for the Presidency.
A CLASH has occurred in Baltimore,
Md, between the Catholics and Protest
ants over the donation of a hospital
franchise by the City Council, and the
mayor now finds himself between two
denominational fires.
I JAKE SHARP's trial has been set down
per emptorily by Judge Van Bruut, sitting
in the New York Court of Oyer and Ter
miner, for May IL.
H In the police court at Brockton Mass,
pm the 25th, the ex-Rev. Arthur Morrison,
sbf West Bridgewater, was arraigned
bn two charges. The first was
that Of stealing team valued at $500 in
Baltimore, and the latter for carrying con-
healed weapons.
! ASSISTANT SECRETARY MAYNARD has in
formed custom cfficers that imported or
feimported liquors withdrawn for con
Iumption after having been warehoused
hre subject to duty on the quantity offered
for warehouse, and not on that ascer-
Eained on withdrawal for consumption.
GEORGE GRAY, attorney for the Northern
Pacific railroad, is advised that the Cana
liian Pacific has begun to carry sugar
from the Pacific coast to st. Paul at much
lower rates than those which prevailed
n our trans-continental lines before the
rder Of suspension.
THE recent storm proved very destruc-
I'VE to stock in Northwestern Iowa. Over
oe hundred head were frozen in Palo
Its County. The stock were grazing
| hen, blinded by the storm, they strayed
| # and porished.